Dr. Maja Halilovic-Pastuovic

Dr. Maja Halilovic-Pastuovic

Research Fellow (School of Religion)

PHYSIOLOGY BUILDING

Maja is currently Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Irish School of Ecumenics.The title of her project is GATED: Segregated education in post-conflict Bosnia and the possibilities of future conflicts in Europe. During the project Maja shares her time between the Irish School of Ecumenics and the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. Maja is also a partner in a consortium on the project called PERICLES (Policy recommendation and improved communication tools for law enforcement and security agencies preventing violent radicalisation. PERICLES is Horizon2020 funded project. Maja completed her PhD in 2013 in Trinity College Dublin within the Department of Sociology where she worked as an Assistant Professor for three years. At present Maja's research focuses on segregated education in post-Dayton Bosnia, and youth radicalisation and fundamentalism in the country, as well as on the issue of radicalisation more generally. Maja teaches in the areas of sociology of race and ethnicity, sociology of identity and sociology of forced migration and conflict.

GATED: Segregated education in post-conflict Bosnia and the possibilities of future conflicts in Europe

From

October 2016

To

September 2019

Summary

The specific aim of the project is to investigate if segregated education in post-conflict societies causes the radicalisation of youth and increases the possibilities of future conflicts. GATED project presents an interdisciplinary investigation of segregated education in Bosnia with particular focus on the phenomenon of 'two schools under one roof' (TSUOR) that currently operates in the country. TSUOR describes schools in Bosnia that are organised around the ethnic segregation of children. Children from different ethnic groups, namely Bosnian Muslims, Croats and Serbs, attend classes in the same building but are physically separated into different classrooms and are taught different curricula by teachers from their own ethnic and religious group. TSUOR is not just a practice of separate education but a policy of segregation which was introduced to Bosnia two decades ago via the Dayton Peace Agreement that ended the conflict in Bosnia. The long term peace building aim of the Dayton Agreement was to keep warring sides apart by giving ethnic groups in conflict institutional and constitutional recognition and rights to separate identities. 2015 marked twenty years since the signing of the Dayton Agreement and over the last twenty years the legacy of the right to separate identities has penetrated all areas of Bosnian social and political life, including the field of education. Currently Bosnia is a divided society and segregated education in this divided society is an urgent issue.

Funding Agency

European Commission (REA)

Project Type

Marie Sklodowska Curie Global Fellowship

Project Title

PERICLES

From

May 2017

To

June 2020

Summary

PERICLES (Policy recommendation and improved communication tools for law enforcement and security agencies preventing violent radicalisation). The overall aim of the project is to develop a comprehensive approach to prevent and counter violent radicalisation and extremism.To meet its aims, PERICLES will consider violent left-wing and right-wing as well as religious ideologies. A special focus will be set on the risks connected with digital violent propaganda. The PERICLES project will deliver advanced and validated counter-propaganda techniques that are target-group-specific. Furthermore, the cooperation between relevant authorities who have due regard against violent radicalisation or support the process of de-radicalisation will be enhanced through the use of the project outputs.

Maja Halilovic-Pastuovic, ''Settled in mobility' as a 'space of possibility': Bosnian post-refugee transnationalism as a response to the bio-politics of Irish interculturalism',, Translocations: Migration and Social Change, Special Issue on Integration, 6, (2), 2010,
Journal Article,
PUBLISHED

"Not like it used to be Bosnia" - Grounding Bosnian post-refugee transnationalism: the politicisation of nationalism, ethnic reification and religiosity in post-Dayton Bosnia' in, editor(s)Eleftherakis, G., Hannam, S., Kalyva, E. and Psychogios, A. , Infusing Research and Knowledge in South-East Europe, Thessaloniki, South East European Research Centre, 2009, [Maja Halilovic-Pastuovic],
Book Chapter,
PUBLISHED

'The "Bosnian project" in Ireland: A "vision of divisions"' in, editor(s)Fanning, Bryan , Immigration and Social Change in Republic of Ireland, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2007, [Maja Halilovic-Pastuovic],
Book Chapter,
PUBLISHED

Maja Halilovic-Pastuovic, 'Segregated education in the racial state of Bosnia 20 years after the Dayton Agreement', NDLP2015 Conference, University of Lodz, Poland, 12-14 April 2015,
Conference Paper,
PRESENTED

Maja Halilovic-Pastuovic, "'The diaspora is coming back': the Bosnian response to Bosnian annual summer migrations home", Diasporas and Cosmopolitanism in Central and Eastern Europe: From theory to practice, Centre for East European Language Based Area Studies, UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies London, UK, 18-19 September 2010,
Conference Paper,
PRESENTED

Maja Halilovic-Pastuovic, '"Not like it used to be Bosnia" - Grounding Bosnian post-refugee transnationalism: the politicisation of nationalism, ethnic reification and religiosity in post-Dayton Bosnia', 4th South East European Doctoral Student Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece, 6-7 July 2009,
Conference Paper,
PRESENTED